East Asia Forum Author: Michael Clarke, ANU China’s concerns with terrorism are almost entirely focused on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Xinjiang’s geopolitical position at the eastern edge of the Islamic and Turkic-speaking world and the ethno-cultural distinctiveness of its largely Turkic-Muslim ethnic groups have constituted a challenge to the centralising imperatives of successive Chinese gover ...

    East Asia Forum By Tayir Imin Uighurian Washington – While the Muslims around the world have been gathering to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, with feasts to mark the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting , the Ramadan holiday meant nothing but performing Eid prayer for the Uighur Muslims across the world who wonder about the fate of more than 2 million brothers and sisters in their homelan ...

The Australian An Australian national security agency head was shown a secret list of about 100 Chinese fugitives that Beijing believes live in Australia, evidence the communist nation’s hunt for former officials and business people is much wider than publicly known. The Weekend Australian can reveal a Chinese minister produced the list during a private lunch in Beijing with the security agency chief in lat ...

Daily Pioneer Xinjiang region of China today reflects an extreme manifestation of a new ‘Surveillance State’ by the all powerful regime of Xi Jinping. Interestingly, this comes with a high-handed combination of technology and a strong flavour of communism. Its aim is not only to prevent the wave of both global and local Islamic terror, but also to alter the distinct identity of the Uighur Muslims and indoct ...

Asia Times  Chinese cities with large Muslim populations have tightened security ahead of the holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Friday, with additional police and anti-terrorism units drafted in to check for any evidence of infiltration by extremist groups. It is expected that at least 10 ethnic groups, comprising about 20 million Chinese, will take part in the festival, which marks the end of the Islamic holy mont ...